A combination oven has traditional baking with a standard heating element, PLUS a microwave in the same box; so we can skip having a separate microwave elsewhere. Here is the blog post where I was shopping for combination ovens and considering our options… visit if you wish to see what I would have bought if money […]

This is part-three of my de-crap-a-thon. If you missed: Part One, and Part Two. As I discarded stuff, I piled it in the dining room. We lived with Mt. Crap in the middle of the house for months. I saw: I have saved all of this stuff because the idea of discarding it gave me paralysis… […]

Our third floor is the kitten room… it’s empty because Panleukopenia is deathly contagious– anything that cannot be sterilized must be tossed. I’ve thrown away everything: rugs, furniture, cat towers… for the things that must stay: the walls, the floor— I’m going to paint; I am afraid that bleach and scrubbing are not enough… I […]